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Title: Anarchism defined Author: Hugh Owen Pentecost Date: May 8, 1890 Language: en Topics: Libertarian Labyrinth, definitions Source: Retrieved on June 11, 2020 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/from-the-archives/anarchism-defined-twentieth-century-1890/
Anarchism does not mean no government. It means no government by
physical force. It does not mean each for himself independently of all.
It means voluntary cooperation. Anarchism is Socialism without physical
compulsion. It does not mean the destruction of our present forms of
government by physical violence. It means the harmonizing of society by
education in sociologic science. It does not contemplate sudden changes.
It recognizes that slowness is a necessary characteristic of evolution.
Anarchism is the synonym for sociologic evolution. It means that we
should proceed in the direction of less government by physical force
until we learn how to dispense with all. It does not advocate license
for the criminal. It demands liberty for the worthy. It would restrain
burglars, murderers, land grabbers, money monopolists, tax gatherers —
those who injure or despoil others by physical force operating without
or by means of statute law. But it would give freedom of opportunity to
the wealth producer. Anarchists know they will not have the state of
society they want until it can be secured by public opinion.